MY SHRUBS 87 
flowerer, and soon makes a specimen on a sunny wall. Few 
recent acquisitions are more attractive. 
Osteomeles anthyllidifolia, another Chinese evergreen with 
flowers like a small hawthorn, makes a big wall shrub, but lacks 
much interest. It is about as attractive as Famesia, and, for a 
limited garden, many better things occur to one. 
Osyris I do not find in cultivation, though it is a graceful little 
shrub. O. alba is a Mediterranean plant with delicate, willowy 
branches, on which appear white flowers, followed by small red 
fruits. I have seen it, but never collected it. 
Othonnopsis cheirifolia is a glaucous, evergreen sub-shrub from 
North Africa, whose charm lies in its handsome foliage. This 
ragwort is quite hardy on a sunny rockery in the west, and opens 
its bright yellow daisies during October and November. It is a 
great grower, and must be cut back hard in late autumn. The 
clippings, if planted in a corner of the nursery, will soon strike 
and enable you to supply the county. 
Oxycoccus, the cranberry, will give you its fruit if grown in a 
sunny marsh. I have the lesser plant, but should like O. macro- 
carpus, the American, who comes to us by the barrel, and must be 
a gracious sight when in full fruit. 
Ozothamnus thyrsoides is a successful plant in many Devon 
gardens, and there is great charm in a fine piece of this handsome 
and graceful Australian. The foliage is like a rosemary, and the 
inflorescence, which covers the shrub in Jate June, a pearly white. 
The plant is a little tender, and will well repay slight protection 
in harsh weather. It appreciates sunshine and a light soil. 
My tiniest shrub at present is Pachystima Canbyi, from the 
mountains of Virginia—a neat, little red-flowered evergreen for a 
